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Column, News
COLUMN: Being Present
By: Alex Gaynor
Engaging reality seems like an abstract term, but what it breaks down to are the simple notions of being present, attentive, observant, and open.
Opinions, Editorials
Record Turnout Marks Successful Spring Fair
By: The Heights Editorial Board
Despite recent, unsuccessful attempts at a second semester student-run activities fair, this year’s Spring Involvement Fair in the Rat was filled with both organizations and students last Thursday. In addition, the student organizations division under the new structure of UGBC has expedited the process for student groups to become a registered student organization (RSO), encouraging more students to start their own RSOs.
Opinions, Editorials
Lerner’s Grant Reflects Research Achievements
By: The Heights Editorial Board
After 18 years as a professor in the Lynch School of Education and nearly three decades of researching child development, Jacqueline Lerner has been awarded a $1.96 million grant to fund a three-year longitudinal study on moral development in youth. Lerner’s research on youth self-regulation and adolescent virtuous behavior is regarded by many as being at the forefront of its kind, and rightly so, given her extensive list of publications on the subject.
News, Column
Slowing Our Lives
By: Adriana Mariella
As students who spend four years engrossed in subjects that might seem “impractical,” we should be reluctant to see the book phased out for its digital counterpart or the careful, intellectual process of writing deemed too time consuming.
Column
Taking Advantage Of Life In Ecuador
A catchy slogan makes a student abroad in Ecuador think about what it really means to love life.
Column, Opinions
The Paradox Of Pressing Pause
By: Tiffany Ashtoncourt
Committed at the most clandestine hours of the night with only the individual and his or her computer as witnesses, you know those who have done it and you’re probably one of them, too-let’s talk about procrastination. Procrastination is a little difficult to talk about, not only because of how personally it affects people, but also because of how much of a paradox it is.
Column, Opinions
The Language Of Discourse
By: Ben Olcott
Discourse, and this is my Clark Kentish definition, is the set of and interplay between words and tones in specific contexts. Discourses provide texture to fundamental social structures for better or for worse.
Column, Opinions
An Eye For An Eye?
By: Jaclyn Susskind
By the end of this month, Attorney General Eric Holder will make his final decision whether to seek the death penealty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible for the April bombing in Boston. And so, the question of justice is brought in. Would the death penalty provide the people of Boston and America a sense of fair play?
